Shirley v. Sovereign Camp, W. O. W.

Defendant below, the Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World, is an incorporated, nonprofit, fraternal insurance corporation, having a lodge system with ritualistic form of work and numerous local “Camps” in many states of the Union, including Indiana and .Tennessee. Defendant is incorporated under the laws .of the state of Nebraska, with its principal office at the city of Omaha in that state, but, long prior to the institution of this suit, it ha‘d been domesticated in Tennessee pursuant to the applicable statutes of this state.

On August 24, 1925, the defendant issued to Marion H.…